Social Robotics

Learning robot navigation behaviors by demonstration using a RRT* planner.- Adaptive Robot Assisted Therapy using Interactive Reinforcement Learning.- Personalization Framework for Adaptive Robotic Feeding Assistance.- A Framework for Modelling Local Human-Robot Interactions based on unsupervised learning.- Using Games to Learn Games: Game Theory Representations as a source for Guided Social Learning .- User Evaluation of an Interactive Learning Framework for Single-Arm and Dual-Arm Robots.- Formalizing Normative Robot Behavior.- Decision-Theoretic Human-Robot Interaction: Designing Reasonable and Rational Robot Behavior.- Physiologically Inspired Blinking Behavior for a Humanoid Robot.- Infinite personality space for non-fungible robots.- Investigating the Differences in Effects of the Persuasive Message's Timing During Science Learning to Overcome the Cognitive Dissonance.- Investigating the Effects of the Persuasive Source's Social Agency Level and the Student's Profile to Overcome the Cognitive Dissonance.- Responsive Social Agents; Feedback-sensitive behavior generation for social interactions.- A Human-Robot Competition: Towards Evaluating Robots' Reasoning Abilities for HRI.- The Effects of Cognitive Biases in Long-term Human-Robot Interactions: Case Studies using three Cognitive Biases on MARC the Humanoid Robot.- Ethical Decision Making in Robots: Autonomy, Trust and Responsibility.- How Facial Expressions and Small Talk May Influence Trust in a Robot.- A Study on Trust in a Robotic Suitcase.- How Much Should a Robot Trust the User Feedback? Analyzing the Impact of Verbal Answers in Active Learning.- Recommender Interfaces: the More Human-like, the More Humans Like.- Designing a Social Robot to Assist in Medication Sorting.- Other-oriented Robot Deception: How can a robot's deceptive feedback help humans in HRI?.- Ethically-Guided Emotional Responses for Social Robots : Should I be Angry?.- Interactive Navigation of Mobile Robots Based on Human's Emotion.- Social Human-Robot Interaction: a new Cognitive and Affective Interaction-Oriented Architecture.- MuDERI: Multimodal Database for Emotion Recognition among Intellectually Disabled Individuals.- "How is his/her mood": A Question that a Companion Robot may be able to answer.- Emotion in Robots Using Convolutional Neural Networks.- Rhythmic Timing in Playful Human-Robot Social Motor Coordination.- The effects of an impolite vs. a polite robot playing rock-paper-scissors.- Qualitative User Reactions to a Hand-Clapping Humanoid Robot.- Nonlinear Controller of Arachnid Mechanism Based on Theo Jansen.- Designing and Assessing Expressive Open-Source Faces for the Baxter Robot.- Spontaneous Human-Robot Emotional Interaction through Facial Expressions.- Functional and Non-Functional Expressive Dimensions: Classification of the Expressiveness of Humanoid Robots.- Facing Emotional Reactions Towards a Robot - An Experimental Study Using FACS.- Head and Face Design for a new Humanoid Service Robot .- The Influence of Robot Appearance and Interactive Ability in HRI: A Cross-Cultural Study.- Congruency matters - How ambiguous gender cues increase a robot's uncanniness.- Collaborative Visual Object Tracking via Hierarchical Structure.- Data Augmentation for Object Recognition of Dynamic Learning Robot.- Rotational Coordinate Transformation for Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion.- Developing an Interactive Gaze Algorithm for Android Robots.- Recovery Behavior of Artificial Skin Materials after Object Contact.- One-shot evaluation of the control interface of a robotic arm by non-experts.- A Novel Parallel Pinching and Self-adaptive Grasping Robotic Hand.- PCSS Hand: An Underactuated Robotic Hand with a Novel Parallel-Coupled Switchable Self-adaptive Grasp.- JLST Hand: A Novel Powerful Self-Adaptive Underactuated Hand with Joint-Locking and Spring-Tendon Mechanisms.- Path Analysis for the Halo Effect of Touch Sensations of Robots on Their Personality Impressions.- A Human-robot speech interface for an autonomous marine teammate.- Annotation of Utterances for Conversational Nonverbal Behaviors.- Identifying Engagement from Joint Kinematics Data for Robot Therapy Prompt Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.- Social Robots and Teaching Music to Autistic Children: Myth or Reality?.- Development of an ABA Autism Intervention Delivered by a Humanoid Robot.- Interactive Therapy Approach through Collaborative Physical Play between a Socially Assistive Humanoid Robot and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.- Examine the Potential of Robots to Teach Autistic Children Emotional Concepts: A Preliminary Study.- Longitudinal Impact of Autonomous Robot-mediated Joint Attention Intervention for Young Children with ASD.- Culture as a Driver for the Design of Social Robots for Autism Spectrum Disorder Interventions in the Middle East.- Robo2Box: A Toolkit to Elicit Children's Design Requirements for Classroom Robots.- Interaction with Artificial Companions: Presentation of an Exploratory Study .- Design and Development of Dew: An Emotional Social-Interactive Robot.- RASA: A Low-Cost Upper-Torso Social Robot Acting as a Sign Language Teaching Assistant.- Robust Children Behavior Tracking for Childcare Assisting Robot By Using Multiple Kinect Sensors.- Learning with or from the Robot: Exploring Robot Roles in Educational Context with Children.- Automatic Adaptation of Online Language Lessons for Robot Tutoring.- Robots in the Classroom: What Teachers Think about Teaching and Learning with Education Robots.- The Influence of a Social Robot's Persona on how it is Perceived and Accepted by Elderly Users.- From Social Practices to Social Robots - User-Driven Robot Development in Elder Care.- Co-design and robots: a case study of a robot dog for aging people.- An Effort to Develop a Web-Based approach to Assess the Need for Robots Among the Elderly.- Predicting the intention of human activities for real-time human-robot interaction (HRI).- The ENRICHME Project: Lessons Learnt from a First Interaction with the Elderly.- Design and Implementation of a Task-oriented Robot for Power Substation.- The MuMMER project: Engaging human-robot interaction in real-world public spaces.- Introducing IOmi - A Female Robot Hostess for Guidance in a University Environment.- Colleague or Tool?: Interactivity Increases Positive Perceptions of and Willingness to Interact With a Robotic Co-Worker.- Help Me! Sharing of Instructions Between Remote and Heterogeneous Robots.- Enabling Symbiotic Autonomy in Short-Term Interactions: a User Study.- Conceptual framework for RoboDoc: A New Social Robot for Research Assistantship.- Mechanical design of Christine, the friendly social robot for the service industry.- Influence of user's personality on task execution when reminded by a robot.- Comparing Ways to Trigger Migration between a Robot and a Virtually Embodied Character.- Does the Safety Demand Characteristic Influence Human-Robot Interaction?.- On Designing Socially Acceptable Reward Shaping.- Motivational Effects of Acknowledging Feedback from a Socially Assistive Robot.- Who am I? What are You? Identity Construction in Encounters between a Teleoperated Robot and People with Acquired Brain Injury .- Contribution towards Evaluating the Practicability of Socially Assistive Robots - by Example of a Mobile Walking Coach Robot.- Philosophy of Social Robotics: Abundance Economics.- Toward a Hybrid Society: The transformation of robots, from objects to social agents .- Iterative Design of a System for Programming Socially Interactive Service Robots.- Engagement Detection During Deictic References In Human Robot Interaction.- Making Turn-taking Decisions for an Active Listening Robot for Memory Training.- Look at me now: Investigating delayed disengagement for ambiguous human-robot stimuli.- Concurrency Simulation in Soccer.- Let the User Decide! User Preferences regarding Functions, Apps, and Interfaces of a Smart Home and a Service Robot.- Welcome to the Future - How Naive Users Intuitively Address an intelligent Robotics Apartment.- Better than Human: About the Psychological Superpowers of Robots .- A Method for Establishing Correspondences between Hand-Drawn and Sensor-Generated Maps.